INTERVIEW: Singer-Songwriter Christina Taylor Makes use of Music as Drugs

Singer-songwriter Christina Taylor grew up with each mother and father working within the medical area. Like them, she knew she wished to pursue serving to others heal. Nevertheless, her strategy wouldn’t be by medication, however by music.

“My dad is a physician, my mother is a nurse,” Taylor shares. “I come from a household of, I wish to say healers.”

It was by rising up listening to Pink and Eric Church that Taylor realized how therapeutic music might be. Together with her personal expertise in hand, she knew she wished to evoke the identical feeling when writing music.

The singer wished to be there for her followers, assembly them at the very best of occasions or worst of occasions of their lives.

With all that the coronavirus pandemic introduced, it additionally introduced a wake of id disaster for the singer. After a season of questioning, her perspective now trying again on that point in her life is constructive.

“I’m completely satisfied that I had it,” she shares. “It bought me again to my “why.” Why am I an artist? Why did I resolve to do that so a few years in the past?”

It gave her the motivation to proceed to do what she loves, leaping into 2022 extra impressed than ever to put in writing new and contemporary music.

A type of contemporary songs is her first single of 2022, “Any individual Will”.

“There are such a lot of ‘situationships’ the place it’s like a relationship, however you’re not calling it that…how exhausting,” she says. “I wished to provide folks some hope to get out of one thing like that.”

Though the singer says she’s not leaving her conventional nation aptitude behind, followers can count on her to push the envelope this yr on the stylistic mix in her music to return.

“Whereas I’ve a giant voice, I wished to take it down a notch,” she says. “I’m not saying I’ve a bunch of ballads popping out, but it surely’s simply not as loud and in your face…extra trendy.”

Breaking the profession mould of her mother and father might have been a supply of battle, however Taylor says her mother and father have at all times been supportive of her method of “therapeutic others.”

“You’d suppose with my dad being a physician…you already know, medical college, faculty, he’d need me to remain on a reasonably conventional path,” she states. “They had been those who had been like, ‘You shouldn’t go to high school but in case you don’t actually know what you need to do.’”

They pushed her to chase her goals.

“’If this music factor is one thing you need to pursue, you’re going to remorse not going for it,’” she remembers them telling her.

You’ll be able to be taught extra about Taylor on the singer’s official web site.